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text (Brazil). — von Pexzexn, Orn. P>rasiliens, pt. 2, 1868, p. 72 (Ypanema 

 and Goyaz, Brazil; refs.). — Reinhari>t, Vidensk. Med. Nat. For. Kjoben- 

 bavn, 1870, p. 445 (Lagoa Santa, Minas Geraes, Britzil). — Sharps, Cat. 

 Birtls Brit. Mus., vol. 10, 1885, p. 388 (Lagoa Santa and Ypanema, 

 Brazil; descr. ; refs.). — Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 3, 1891, 

 p. 344 (Chapada, Matto Grosso, Brazil; plum.; meas. ). — von Ihering, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1899, p. 51G (faunal range). — Salvadori, Boll. 

 Mus. Zool. ed Anat. comp. Torino, vol. 15. No. 378. 1900, p. 3 (Urucum, 

 Matto Grosso, Brazil: i*efs.). — vox Ihering and von Ihering, Aves do 

 Brazil, 1907, p. 333 (San Jos6 do Rio Pardo, Itatiba, Franca, Avanhan- 

 dava, and Itapura, Brazil; range). — Hexlmayb, Nov. Zool., vol. 15, 1908, 

 p. 19 (Rio Thesouras, Goyaz; Victoria, Sao Paulo; Rio Jordao, Minas 

 Geraes; crit. ) .— Wetmore, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 133, 1926, p. 368 

 (Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay; crit.). 



Description. — Pileum with two broad lateral stripes of black, 

 meeting on the forehead and reachino; to the nape, and inclosing a 

 median stripe or spot of dull orange rufous, overlaid by pallid 

 neutral gray; superciliary stripe pallid neutral gray; an indistinct 

 dusky stripe through the eye, the sides of the head below this dull 

 grayish; upper parts, including the wings and tail externally, bufFy 

 olive, brighter, more yellowish olive, on the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts; under parts white with a faint grayish cast ; tibiae and under 

 wing-coverts primrose yellow, and crissum washed v/ith the same 

 color; "iris dark brown; bill dusky above, pale below; feet pale 

 yellowish." 



Measurements. — Male: Wing, 58-65 (average, 62); tail, 54-61 

 (57.5); bill, 10-11 (10.5); tarsus, 19-21.5 (20). Female: Wing, 

 54-61 (57.5); tail, 49-56 (52); bill, 9.5-10 (9.7); tarsus, 18.5-20 

 (19.2). 



Range. — Brazil, from southern Matto Grosso and Goyaz to Sao 

 Paulo and Paraguay. 



Remarks. — Xatterer was the real discoverer of this species, having 

 taken specimens as early as 1819. Lund took it at Lagoa Santa, in 

 the State of Minas Geraos, in 1837, but it escaped description until 

 1850, when Bonaparte gave a brief but sufficient diagnosis, using a 

 manuscript name applied by Cabanis to a specimen in the Berlin 

 Museum. It remained a rare species in collections until Herbert H. 

 Smith took a large series of specimens at Chapada, Matto Grosso, 

 which were studied by Allen at the American Museum of Natural 

 History, whence they have since found their way to other institutions. 

 The yellow wash on the breast and belly shown by some examples, as 

 Allen remarks, is probably indicative of high plumage, and further- 

 more suggests the relationship of this species to the yellow-bellied 

 auricapiUus group. 



Specimens examined. — Brazil: Chapada, Matto Grosso, 57; Bel- 

 vedere de Urucum, Matto Grosso, 8; Victoria, Sao Paulo, 3. Para- 

 guay : Puerto Pinasco, 1. Total, 68. 



